6 Catholic Book Review Blogs for Self-Published Authors
With websites and related contact pages
Book review websites can give you additional exposure for your book, and an opportunity to obtain editorial reviews.
However, it’s not easy to find book review sites that specialize in religious books, especially Catholic ones. It’s more difficult when you’re an indie author and you have to do the book promotion yourself.
If you have a Catholic book and you want it to be reviewed, you may want to take a look at the following websites:
1. Catholic Book Report
Aaron Martin is a Catholic husband, father, lawyer, business owner and writer, and he established the site to discuss topics related to books and the Catholic faith.
You can reach out to him through his email catholicbookreport [@] gmail [dot] com. Please don’t forget to include “Book Review” in the subject line of your email message.
The link to his website is as follows:
https://catholicbookreport.wordpress.com/
2. Happy Catholic
According to her Facebook page, Julie is a Catholic wife and mother. Although she was a daughter of atheists, she became a Catholic convert.
You can find her book reviews on her website:
https://happycatholic.blogspot.com/
Here are her social media links as well as her email address:
https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=698635360
Email:
julie [@] glyphnet [dot] com
3. Book Reviews and More
I found many Catholic books that are reviewed in this website by Steven R. McEvoy. He also shares his reviews on his Twitter account @SRMcEvoy where he has 1,390 followers.
According to his Goodreads account, he reads almost anything.
I couldn’t find a submissions page on his blog but he has a contact page and an email address.
Here are the relevant sites you can check:
https://www.bookreviewsandmore.ca/
https://www.mcevoysmusings.ca/
McEvoySR [@] gmail [dot] com
4. One Catholic Life
Nick Senger is a Catholic deacon, husband and father who loves to read books!
I could not find his email or contact page on his website, but you can try to contact him through his Instagram and LinkedIn accounts.
Here are the links you can use to find him:
One Catholic Life (website)
http://www.nicksenger.com/onecatholiclife
https://www.instagram.com/nsenger
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsenger/
5. Good Books for Catholic Kids
If you have written a Catholic book that can inspire or educate the younger generation, you can try submitting a request to Brittany! She’s a Catholic Mom with a Theology degree and loves to find “good books” for reading.
You can send a book review request through her Contact page:
https://goodbooksforcatholickids.com/contact/
6. A Catholic Girl Reads
Grace is a student who loves reading books. According to her website, she learned to love books when her parents got her a reading tutor in fifth grade.
While I couldn’t find her email, she has a Chat Box on her website that you can use to contact her.
Here is her website link:
https://www.acatholicgirlreads.com/
More Tips
The above are just some of the websites and blogs that can accept a book review request for your Catholic books. You can look for other sites through Google by including the keywords “book review” to the topic of your book e.g. Catholic devotional.
You can also ask fellow authors and bloggers if they can review your book and if they can post a simple article about it on their websites or Newsletter publications.
